I’m curious to discover more stuff that exists in the App realm, there must be some small indie apps we don’t know about everywhere
Not an app, a site:
Free Photoshop clone. For my needs, it’s over the top perfect.
For me it’s StreetComplete. It’s like Pokémon Go, but you’re doing actual map quests that help verify or correct information in Open Street Maps.
And if you do enough per month, you get free map downloads without a subscription if you use OSM the app.
I think it’s only on Android though.
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Syncthing, its not a recent discovery.
For anyone looking to play Super Mario Sunshine and wants to consider 100%, there’s “Blue Coin Tracker”.
Not only can you check off what you’ve found, but it’s got screenshots, descriptions, and strategies to help you find it. Even links to YouTube clips if you’re still stuck!
It’s invaluable. The blue coins are pretty evil in that game.
Traffick Cam: Help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of hotel rooms from your travels
Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These photographs are evidence that can be used to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes. In order to use these photos, however, investigators must be able to determine where the photos were taken.
Wow, I am, impressed to see something like this exists
This reminds me of tinyapps.org . I loved this resource in the early aughts.
How is the labeling feature different from plus sub addressing (ex: [email protected]) and what platform(s) is the app for? If it says on your site, I missed it
Well, it is subaddressing, but has more related features on top of that. It automatically labels emails based on the address, and allows you to set some settings for that label, like mark as read, send push notifications, show in the “Aggbox” (the equivalent of the inbox), and screen new senders. That last one is important, because it means you can use labels for communicating with real people, and labels for getting email from automated senders (like your account email).
Right now, it’s a progressive web app. I’m working on a mobile app and IMAP support (so it will work with any email client). I’m also working on custom domain support, so you can bring your own domain and if you end up wanting to move somewhere else, you can keep all the same addresses you set up.
My partner introduced me to the Dutch “112” app (112 is the emergency telephone number in Europe).
I hope I never need it of course, but if I do it automatically shares my location and it allows me to chat instead of call if I would be in a situation that requires that.
Also, I really enjoy Jepster as my biking computer when cycling. The guy that built it is also very approachable when you find a problem, which is great.
And when you’re planning to get kids have a look at “Kinder”…
Those type of stuff should come preinstalled in phones rather than fucking Candy Crush or Facebook.
Insight Timer is a meditation timer with the features I like:
- timer
- intervals
- save as preset
it’s also got a huge marketplace of guided meditations, though I don’t use them
kinder world, it’s a plant-watering emotions-thinking about game that’s a cover for a mindfulness app. really effective because cute animal characters.
Web Video Caster is probably my most used app. It casts just about anything to just about anything. It’s worked better than anything else on my Chromecast and when I’ve needed to connect to Roku.
It supports IPTV, playlist creation, bookmarks, watch history, recent played, resume from last position, and a ton more.
The dev has been great whenever I’ve reported bugs and has added a few requests over the years.
Too Good To Go has been awesome since I heard about it on How I Built This. It’s designed to reduce food waste, but I think that makes it sound less appealing than it is.
Participating eateries estimate how much product they will have to throw out at the end of the day. It’s not bad stuff, but stuff they made too much of. Instead of tossing it, they set it aside, and you come take it for pennies on the dollar. No extra work for them, cheap mystery box of eats for you.
We’ve tried many fancy local bakeries we couldn’t really afford, tried new local pizza places, got some great frozen treats and an ice cream cake from the premium ice cream place, and some great Jamaican takeout from a place near my work that’d normally be out of the way.
We also stock up on bagels from the Manhattan Bagel. They’re normally around a dollar each, but we get 15-18 for $5 and then we freeze them. Been doing that for months now, saving a ton of money. Sometimes we get misshapen ones, it flavors we don’t really like, but we still come out way ahead, or we learn different ways to use things, like the salt bagels we didn’t originally like.
+1 for too good to go. It depends on where you go, but I have had good experiences.
It does vary by day and location, but the surprise is part of the fun. I’m between suburb and rural and there’s a decent number of choices, and new things get added with some regularity. It also makes it fun to use while traveling.
I thought this is also a nice one to recommend here as it actually started as a European app, so it’s nice that it’s not US only, so non-Americans may actually have better luck for a change.
@anon6789 I second this. Bought the premium web video caster years ago to support it cause it’s the best app I’ve used for ad blocking video, casting, local casting etc. It’s fantastic.
Thank you! Forget to mention that you don’t lose ad blocking! This is one of my main tools for navigating the 7 seas, so ad block is critical. It does do many legitimate things as well, so anyone wanting to get video on to a big screen for Abby reason should be served well by this.
I believe free does everything premium does, just with a small banner ad, but it’s cheap and well supported, and this is the first app I paid for because I’ve gotten so much from it and it’s easier than any free solution I had found.
I’ve been using Daylio for years.
It’s designed to track moods and the activities associated with them, but it’s adaptable, so I use it to track my headaches. It’s very easy to use and it doesn’t feel onerous to record the information.
I used to use it a few years ago! Then I forgot about it, and now I’m just using Obsidian, but it’s a fun way to think about our days
Daylio is great.
I geocache and some people don’t know about c:geo. It’s a really good app for geocaching because it has so many tools.
Indeed! I geocache and didn’t know about it! Downloaded! I’ll be running it to try!
It’s open source and on F-Droid too!
Pocket Bard is great for setting adaptive music in D&D sessions. Pick a setting (town, cave, woods, dungeon, etc.), choose the activity the party is doing (exploration or battle), choose an intensity. The music will automatically adapt and fluidly change to match the situation.
Do you know of an alternative that allows custom music and sounds? I haven’t found anything that works well.
